Seniors Prompt Hiring Boon

Canada now has so many seniors the Department of Employment hired 18 percent more clerks this year to process Old Age Security claims, records show. New applications for benefits are arriving at the rate of more than 60,000 a week: “For a significant number of these seniors the Old Age Security benefits represent their only source of income.”

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